Australia’s COVID vaccine rollout numbers tracking

The single biggest and most complex vaccine campaign in the nation’s history has begun.

On February 22, Australia officially joined the global race to inoculate millions of people against COVID-19. Quarantine and border workers, frontline healthcare workers, and aged and disability care residents and staff are among the first in line.

The data on this page tracks how each of the states and territories is progressing in this mammoth task, as well as how Australia compares to the rest of the world.

The government has fallen drastically short of its target for the end of February, delivering just half of the expected number of jabs, according to the latest count.

As of February 28, just 33,702 doses had been administered nationwide, according to figures from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet — far below the government’s goal of “at least 60,000 [doses] … by the end of February”.

However, figures shown on March 1 has just 53 per cent of the 63,140 doses allocated for the first week of the campaign had been delivered.

Queensland and Victoria are the furthest behind, reaching only 22 per cent and 30 per cent of their respective allocations.

Tasmania leads the pack, delivering virtually its entire allocation, followed by the ACT at 84 per cent, then NSW at 74 per cent.

The federal government, which is responsible for vaccinations in aged and disability care, has delivered 72 per cent of its share of vaccinations.

The NT has delivered 64 per cent, WA 62 per cent and SA 35 per cent.

In January, the government said its initial target for the start of the rollout was 80,000 doses a week — roughly 11,500 a day.

The longer-term target is to fully vaccinate all adults (about 20 million people) by the end of October, which means rapidly ramping up to some 200,000 doses per day.

This equates to a daily rate of around 0.77 doses per 100 people, which would outpace the peak rates in both the US (0.55 per 100) and the UK (0.65 per 100), according to international figures.